Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

FICTURES AND THE PICTUREGOER 284 Week exdino Dec. 25. 1915 mmm musmus & mmm FROM PLAYERS ACROSS THE SEA. TO foil ncing "PICTURES'; READERS c£=^ IT'S a good long sleep for me this Christmas. After working at a serial the best part of six months, up night after night getting night scenes, I reckon Christmas has done me a very good turn. Many happy returns to good old Christmas is my message to all my friends who act for the pictures, and to those who i-ead Pictures. CHRISTMAS is peace time, sol have arranged a tvn.ee with Mr. Ford, and we shall not do any ■ fightin' during Christmas. I hope Pie'TURES readers won't mind. Ukf«U. *\7 0IT must be getting tired of rei ceiving my annual greetings year after year, but I can assure you all that every new Christmas seems to bring me closer and closer to my picture " pals." ANY old time is "merry"' with me, and by Christmas-time I am usually so fagged, tearing around trying to make people laugh, that what I do is to lie in bed and let other folks do the merry-making. ALTHOUGH we have never met, 1 cannot help but feel that the readers of Pictures and Thd PlCTT/REGOER.are my pergonal friends. And so I send them this personal message: "Good hick and good cheer. May Christmas bririjz you days of happiness, may the New Year hold a future of health apd contentment i'«»r yon all. With all my heart I echo this wish."' I WARNED you in my last's year's Christmas message that if you saw two of me in one picture yon had been having a merry tinu. but don't start pinching yourself if you see two of me in The Carsicah Brothers, as there really are two of mi. "JUST M3THE.1 AND I." TH3 nicest Christmas I ever spent was when my mother joined me at Santa tfarbara. I had been away from her for over three years. She could not leave the East, and I was working my way up on the s!a^e. and was never in one placj for long. We are great companions, and she came close to me one Christmas Day. and 1 have held her close ever since. A Christmas dinner without some member of one's family is noChristmas dinner at all to my way of thinking. We had a simple dinner, and spent most of the day talking, and it stands out as the happiest Christmas I ever spent. Oh ! how I hope this horrid old war will be over, so that your readers may spend as happy a Christmas as I hope to spend this year. were all looked after, and there were all sorts of junketings on the plantation. Alter dinner we attended the darkies' quarters and witnessed a biff cake-walk, and it certainly brought back menu 1 1 have had many nice celebrations -ince then, lint none which could take the place of that family reunion. AM ID2AL CHRISTMAS. 1 CANNOT remember a really unhappy Christmas. 1 have 'spent Christmas '"on the road"" with a travelling company, bnt always managed to extract enjoyment on tb sion some way or another. My last Christmas was a quiet one. I got up early and prepared the usual presents for my mother, who is my constant companion. Ti en I went into the garden and gathered Tl posy of 1 and geraniums to add to the "mountain holly I had picked some days before. Alter breakfast we autoed to call on some of the boys and girls and to bid them "Merry Christmas." and three of them who had no relatives with them joined us at dinner, and we had a good time, and we sat on the porch in the sun afterwards. To me a sunny, warm Christmas is ideal, although I can understand how Christmas and snow naturally no together with my English cousins. A Happy Christmas to everybody ! ^ I^SUC* Os cZ^t^/zCcU^ JUST a wee corner of your dear little paper, please Mr. Editor, to wish all your readers as happy a Christmas as possible. Let as hope that the New Year may bring peace and quietness to all nations, and that our next year's Christmas will be n ally a jolly one. jv /i / • /T) ' rf Christmas will be roilly a , IT is awfully good of you to ask me to send a message to your readers, and I know of nothing more sincere than the old, old wish — A Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. /7?La^&*+** HtJLLO! my friends! Christmas again! .May there be plenty of Bnow, ice, fun. nuts, wine, holly, mistletoe, plum-pudding and turkey, so that you ami 1 and everybody can nave a rattling, roaring, merrj eld lime. "■C^_c^ "V* MY "BEST" CHRISTMAS. YOU have set me a hard task. I have had so many good ones which I remember well. Perhaps it was the time when we had a reunion at home 011 our cotton plantation in Alabama. Asa family we had spread. but on this particular Christmas Day we all met at heme. We were just a lot of children, and t he old-time darkies and the newer generation of darkies CH3ISTMAS ON THE SANDS. THE best Christmas I ever spent was last year. We had a picnic on the sands, and some of us had a dip in the ccean. It was not si \ery cold either— that is. after the first gasp or two ! Phis was at Santa Monica, near La Angeles, when several actors and actresses who were away from homeand : THJE.. WHEN DO , COMMUTERS COMMUTE? ^5?